Chronic total occlusion of the left main coronary artery (LMCA) is rare. Recently, percutaneous coronary intervention has been increasingly applied to unprotected LMCA lesions. We describe a patient with chronic total occlusion of the LMCA who was successfully treated with bifurcation stenting with sirolimus-eluting stents.

doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-8183.2005.04069.x, hdl.handle.net/1765/54997
Journal of Interventional Cardiology: an international forum for global cardiovascular therapies
Department of Cardiology

Aoki, J., Hoye, A., Staferov, A., Alekyan, B., & Serruys, P. (2005). Sirolimus-eluting stent implantation for chronic total occlusion of the left main coronary artery. Journal of Interventional Cardiology: an international forum for global cardiovascular therapies, 18(1), 65–69. doi:10.1111/j.1540-8183.2005.04069.x